1956 Bell Telephone People Service Vintage Ad Open House Visitors Greatest Invention Yet AT&T ATT 56 *You Choose Frame-Mat Colors-Free USA S&H*
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Some of the text in this Vintage Ad:
“People Are the Greatest Invention Yet”
Visitor to Telephone Company
exhibit says: ''The man of
the house came out with a new
reverence for engineering.
I came out with a new
reverence for people."
INTERESTED VISITORS-Mrs. Beebe and her husband found many things of interest at the telephone company. "I was so impressed," she said, "that I went right home and wrote a piece for our local newspaper." It's so human and friendly that we are reprinting it here.
``We went to the Telephone
Company's Open House," writes
Evadne Scott Beebe in the Zion-
Benton News, "and saw the
electronic brain playing ticktack-
toe. Mv husband was enthralled
with the performance
but I was watching the deft,
well-groomed hands of the
woman at the machine. She wore
a wedding ring and I wondered
about her home and family.
``After we listened to her little
speech we went to a man in a
brown business suit who told us
how telephone bills are made
out. Then a clear-eyed young
woman operated the machine for
us. To be sure, it was an amazing
gimmick, but not nearly so
attractive as the girl who handled
it so well.
"Outside we stopped by a
truck with an `earth auger' and
other modem attachments. Explaining
their uses was a big,
brown, jovial lineman.
"While we listened to an account
of how fast the auger
could dig a hole, I was looking
at the man and thinking that
here was the typical lineman,
strong, alert, capable and kindly,
a person who, in times of disaster,
becomes a kind of unsung
hero.
"My husband said, `This is
what I want to see,' as we went
into the equipment building.
Here we saw switches and relays,
ringing machines, countless
colored wires in patterns like
quilt blocks, and listened to
technical explanations.
"That is, my husband listened.
I watched the men as they talked
so intelligently and wondered
where they live, who cooks their
meals and irons their shirts, what
their problems are, and if they
were ever in love."
EVADNE SCOTT BEEBE,
Zion-Benton (Ill.) News
There is, indeed, a lot of wonderful
equipment in telephone
service. But it takes more than
740,000 Bell System men and
women to bring it into being
and make it work. And because
more people are making more
use of their telephones, the number
of employees is growing all
the time.
"People," as Mrs. Beebe points
out, "are the greatest invention
yet" in the telephone business.
Bell Telephone System American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T ATT)
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We mat and frame original, vintage magazine ads...they are in good condition, but may not be perfect as they are many decades old. Frame outside dimensions are 15" x 12", and matted ad is approximately 9-5/8" x 6-5/8" (could be slightly different, depending on ad).
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